Did they set a budget for this? We just went the our DR Scenario and these where our three options (all of them virtual)
1) Platespin Forge appliance, Very Cool device we tested for a month and worked like a peach. It's DR on a shell they retail for around $50K List. It's a Dell rebranded server with VI3 and the Platespin Tools/OS on it. You can have a 10 or 25 server License, add a kernel shim to the servers you want to back up and you're good to go it does full or incremental backups into VM's and shift's the workload back and forth in case of DR 2) Falconstor CDP appliance, a little more than we needed but it also did tape to Disk backup and de duplication. You need 1 appliance at each site. The 12 TB one's with all the software and clients for 40 servers where around $150K 3) Blades and VI3 with tape backup and restore, cheap enough and most of it we had in place, this takes the longest to recover DR wise. It all depends on what they want to achieve and how much downtime they can afford to have -----Original Message----- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 7:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare in DR site Which pieces of the main site are they wanting to replicate? This it the starting point. Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 -----Original Message----- From: Active Elk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 11:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VMWare in DR site Hi, Our client wants to have a DR site. In the primary site, all servers are in physical box. There is no virtualization in place. In the DR site, they wanted all the DR servers to be in a virtual environment. May I know for guys have implemented this, do you mind sharing your experience and what to look out for? So far what I can think of is using software like CA XOSoft or Double Take to do a host to host replication to the DR site. Is there a better way to do it? Thanks. Best Regards, Wei Yu New Email names for you! Get the Email name you've always wanted on the new @ymail and @rocketmail. Hurry before someone else does! http://mail.promotions.yahoo.com/newdomains/sg/ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ _________________________________________________________ This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges. This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system. _________________________________________________________ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
